{"podcast":{"title":"The Plantastic Podcast","slug":"the-plantastic-podcast-4937946","podcast_index_feed_id":4937946,"rss_url":"https://feeds.simplecast.com/r_gLkL1Z","website_url":"theplantasticpodcast.com","image_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/24958a39-bc96-4162-a43b-fd4769e86932/6c65b1db-82fe-4043-b449-4298afb589bc/3000x3000/tpp-show-artwork.jpg?aid=rss_feed","author":"Jared Barnes","episode_count":54,"summary":"Plants can’t talk, but we can! The Plantastic Podcast is a show for plant killers, green thumbs, and everyone in between. Listen along as Dr. Jared deconstructs the practices of the best plantspeople of our time so that you can better cultivate your plants and yourself.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-11T02:21:14.981116+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-plantastic-podcast-4937946"},"episode":{"title":"Sarah Sikich and Ryan Watson on Growing Orchards with Giving Grove (#38)","slug":"sarah-sikich-and-ryan-watson-on-growing-orchards-with-giving-grove-38","published_at":"2025-03-05T01:40:39+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-plantastic-podcast-4937946/sarah-sikich-and-ryan-watson-on-growing-orchards-with-giving-grove-38","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-plantastic-podcast-4937946","url":"theplantasticpodcast.com","audio_url":"https://cdn.simplecast.com/audio/c1ca3217-2d57-485f-af64-3944f4d10e94/episodes/397a4c06-b404-4b16-8eef-765fac9bd1b5/audio/a6ea4e76-b775-4419-b86b-46e1045191bd/default_tc.mp3?aid=rss_feed&feed=r_gLkL1Z","summary":"This month on The Plantastic Podcast, I interviewed Sarah Sikich and Ryan Watson of The Giving Grove to learn about how to grow better orchards at home and in a public space. We discuss strategies they have used to establish over 650 orchards nationwide, fruit tree selection and efforts to save heirloom varieties, pest management techniques using holistic sprays and kaolin clay, beneficial understory plantings under fruit trees, how to create a thriving soil in orchards, how they help reduce vandalism on trees in public spaces, some of our favorite ways to use fruit, and so much more.","meta_description":"This month on The Plantastic Podcast, I interviewed Sarah Sikich and Ryan Watson of The Giving Grove to learn about how to grow better orchards at home an…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4731,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-plantastic-podcast-4937946/episodes/sarah-sikich-and-ryan-watson-on-growing-orchards-with-giving-grove-38/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-plantastic-podcast-4937946/sarah-sikich-and-ryan-watson-on-growing-orchards-with-giving-grove-38.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}